Editing Áras an Uachtaráin (section)

===Origins===
The original house was designed by park ranger and amateur architect [[Nathaniel Clements]] in the mid-18th century. It was bought by [[the Crown]] in the 1780s to become the summer residence of the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]], the British [[viceroy]] in the [[Kingdom of Ireland]]. His official residence was in the Viceregal Apartments in [[Dublin Castle]]. The house in the park later became the ''Viceregal Lodge'', the "out of season" residence of the Lord Lieutenant (also known as the Viceroy), where he lived for most of the year from the 1820s onwards. During the [[Irish Social Season|Social Season]] (January to [[Saint Patrick's Day]] in March), he lived in state in Dublin Castle.

Phoenix Park once contained three official state residences. The Viceregal Lodge, the [[Deerfield Residence|Chief Secretary's Lodge]] and the [[Under Secretary's Lodge]]. The Chief Secretary's Lodge, now called Deerfield, is the official residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland. The Under Secretary's Lodge, now demolished, served for many years as the [[Apostolic Nunciature to Ireland|Apostolic Nunciature]], the Medieval core of the building surviving as [[Ashtown Castle]].

Some historians have claimed that the garden front portico of Áras an Uachtaráin (which can be seen by the public from the main road through the [[Phoenix Park]]) was used as a model by Irish architect [[James Hoban]], who designed the [[White House]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] However, the porticoes were not part of Hoban's original design and were, in fact, added to the White House at a later date by [[Benjamin Henry Latrobe]].